About a week ago, I put a full shine of Testors glosscote on. It was no easy task with the dunkelbraun the way it was. I should have sanded that down a bit more. But my hope now is when I make the finish flat again with Testors dullcote, that the roughness so apparent in gloss will seem nothing. Fingers crossed.

You can see the roughness when this glosscote is on over the brown area. Hoping that goes away.

Much smoother here, should take decals well.

There’s going to be a decent amount of detailing and weathering on this underside that I’m counting on the glosscote for.

I’m going to be detailing the underside with a black acrylic wash using a technique I read about online. Let the wash flood into panel lines and detail areas, then come back with a clean brush mostly rung out of water, and sop up the extra. This leaves dark detail in the deeper spaces and makes it simple to control how much is left. It’s not fast, but it’s controlled.

Example of the detailing on the tail. The left image shows a decaled and reglossed tail witbout the detail added from the wash yet. The right side shows that detail applied to the reverse side. It’s not much in some lighter panel lines, but it’s enough to really make it pop.